Room author should be able to join public instances of their room regardless if it is full.

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I uploaded my Sword Art Online world, it was made public. I poured my sweat and tears into making this room, and there are 200+ people playing it. However all the rooms are full, meaning I can't go into them to see how people are using my world, where they tend to hang out, etc. World authors should be able to join their own worlds regardless of whether or not it is full. If there is still room for friends to join on friends, then the room author should be allowed to join the instance as well without needing to be friends with someone in the public instance. Would be super useful.

I agree, though I do not have any publicly listed worlds in my arsenal as of yet - this is indeed a serious concern. Optimisation hinges heavily on traffic analysis within custom worlds.

It is also not ideal for people to associate a map with a particular note of distaste due to abuse and/or people exploiting minor bugs within the map.

Take for example my reading hall (one day I will get a response, and it will be made public, haha), I use it for my weekly event; I do not want people to associate the place with feelings of hate/disgust. This would lead to a drop in attendance, and - subsequent cancellation due to lack of audience. Things probably wouldn't get so dire, but a concern needs to be noted.

To re-iterate / TL;DR:

Like a parent, we want to take care of the maps we spend so much time and effort on. To ensure everyone loves the maps as much as we do - and don't avoid it due to easily resolvable issues (if reported/spotted).

@Kiama: What if the world were wanting to test is private though that people can get into via a portal in the public room? I can't ever join in on the populated instances of those ones unless I made the instance myself

@Darn Hyena: The problem with testing private rooms is one of privacy, as you don't know what's going on in the room, what being discussed (or shown). With that in mind do you really want to barge in on potentially private matters?

@Darn Hyena: That is the weirdest situation I have ever seen, and if that's the case then you should make yourself a public instance and then use the portal in. I really don't know what to say because that's just weird.

@mcpedro99: Content creators already have features tailored towards them, for example they have the ability to kick anyone from the worlds they own, without the need of a vote. This is no different, it isn't special treatment, it's supporting the people who take the time out of their day to make the content for free that the rest of the community gets to enjoy.